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Chopin: Favorite Piano Works Best Price: $10.18 This is a masterful performance by the great Vladimir Ashkenazy of Chopin's favourite piano... | Beethoven: Piano Trios, Vol. 2; Itzhak Perlman; Vladimir Ashkenazy; Lynn Harrell Best Price: $7.93 Beethoven is one of those composers that emerged fully himself from his first compositions.... | Beethoven: Favourite Piano Sonatas / Vladimir Ashkenazy Best Price: $10.59 Ashenazy powers through these Sonatas in a manner such that I imagine the irascible old Ludwig... | Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 - 4 Best Price: $10.49 Ashkenazy playing Rachmaninov has been always wonderful. Despite
this is a very good cycle,... | Beethoven: The Piano Concertos Best Price: $11.99 As an admirer of both pianist and conductor, I purchased this inexpensive set with high hopes. ... |
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Prokofiev: Cinderella, Op. 87; Glazunov: Seasons Op67 Best Price: $10.59 Prokofiev is very well known for his Romeo and Juliet ballet, however, IMO his Cinderella ballet... | Rachmaninov: 24 Preludes/Piano Sonata No.2 Best Price: $10.38 Although Ashkenazy is a great performer of Piano Concertos, I didnt care much for his... | Chopin: Nocturnes, 4 Ballades Best Price: $10.48 We get to sample on line now, so you can verify for yourself, but I find this to be a very... | Chopin: Mazurkas Best Price: $10.57 These are 2 CDs for the price of one of Chopin's Mazurkas. Ashkenazy plays them amazingly, and... | Tchaikovsky: The Seasons Best Price: $10.09 Vladimir Ashkenazy plays with much conviction and brilliance these lesser known works composed... |
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Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos 2 & 3 / Ashkenazy, Kondrashin Best Price: $6.11 I bought 5 different CDs of Rachmaninov Piano Concerto #2, none of which I was happy with as... | Scriabin: The Piano Sonatas Best Price: $10.27 the Scriabin sonatas' shows the evolution of the composer, a pretender of Chopin in the earlier... | Chopin: Piano Sonatas; Etudes Best Price: $10.36 These recordings are the best recordings to get if you are looking for two things in the etudes.... | Sibelius: Finlandia/Karelia Suite/The Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 & 4 Best Price: $10.57 Sibelius' symphonies have often been represented as austere and sparsely-textured works, and... | Mozart: The Piano Concertos Best Price: $39.99 If you want a set of Mozart Concertos i must say that this is one of the best I have seen and... |
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Beethoven: The Piano Sonatas [Box Set] Best Price: $41.79 As a longstanding admirer of Ashkenazy, I was eager to hear how he interpreted this "New... | Rachmaninov: The Isle of the Dead Op.29/Symphonic Dances Op.45 Best Price: $5.39 The performance of The Isle of the Dead on this disc is arguably among the very best. Vladamir... | The Art of Ashkenazy Best Price: $10.66 it would have to be this one.
Ashkenazy's assured playing, his exquisite interpretations, his... | J.S Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier This recording seems to me to be awfully heavy-handed,
played on a piano which is too broad... | Chopin: Waltzes; 4 Scherzos; 26 Preludes When I was in High School (in the 60's) I loved and played Chopin waltzes, and went on to be a... |
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Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7 This is my favorite recording of Beethoven's Fifth. I'm including in that statement recordings... | Rachmaninov: Music for 2 Pianos Previously, I have enjoyed Ashkenazy's skillful rendering of Rachmaninov's 24 Preludes, so I was... | Chopin Polonaises Like every other Chopin CD that he's done, Ashkenazy is again marvelous. There is none better.... | Scriabin: le Po?me De L'Extase/Piano Concerto/Prometheus I must regret the incredible forgetfulness that still seems to persist in which concerns the... | Arthur Miller - Beethoven: Symphonies no 5 and 7 / Ashkenazy (Penguin Music Classics Series) "Vladimir Ashkenazy leads the Philharmonia Orchestra through these Beethoven classics in a... |
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Rachmaninov: The Four Piano Concertos This is the Rach cycle to get. Although Previn's cycle is good, Haitink's
looks unbeatable.... | Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet Ashkenazy is a pet conductor of Decca's and has been for three decades or more, even though his... | Sergei Prokofiev: Cinderella (Complete Ballet) I've owned this CD for 22 years now and have yet to hear anything from any genre come close in... | Vladimir Ashkenazy: Favourite Chopin (Chopin Piano Works) [2 CD Set] Best Price: $17.98 This is a very good basic recording of eternally pleasant Chopin greats played by a great... | Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 3, 5, 6 & 7 Best Price: $10.68 so I'm maybe a little biased, but I love Ashkenazy's Sibelius. Yes, he makes it overly romantic... |
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Shostakovich: 24 Preludes & Fugues, Op. 87 Best Price: $19.88 I'm really torn about Ashkenazy's interpretation. He ignores tempo and dynamic markings, yet... | Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition Best Price: $8.28 I attended Askenazy's performance last weekend with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra of his... | Claude Debussy: La Mer; Pr?lude ? l' apr?s-midi d'un faune; Nocturnes Best Price: $3.82 I DO NOT AGREE, as far as this album is concerned, with the dismissive reviews in Gramophone... | Chopin: 4 Ballades, 4 Scherzi / Ashkenazy Best Price: $6.83 Some performers improve with age (Rubinstein), some change style while maintaining quality... | Chopin: Favorite Piano Works Best Price: $3.04 |
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Sibelius: The Symphonies; Tone Poems; Violin Concerto [Box Set] Best Price: $20.96 Ashkenazy's Sibelius cycle was one of his early successes as a conductor, and as such helped to... | Shostakovich: Symphony No. 2; October; Festive Overture; Song of the Forests Best Price: $19.99 | Favourite Rachmaninov Best Price: $10.36 It has occured to me that many of the reviewers complain about the slow tempo taken by Ashkenazy... | Rachmaninov: The Piano Concertos Best Price: $76.18 What needs to be said? Words cannot express the fire and passion with which Ashkenazy plays. ... | Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 1, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy Best Price: $63.47 |
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Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 3 Best Price: $19.98 | Schubert: Sonata in A major, D. 664; Sonata in A minor, D. 784; Hungarian Melody, D. 817 Best Price: $8.16 This CD features recordings made in 1966. I first heard him playing in Newcastle, Australia... | Favourite Mozart Best Price: $83.68 I bought this CD to hear his interpretation of Mozart's No. 27 Piano Concerto... glad I did. ... | Stravinsky: Piano Concerto; Ebony Concerto; Capriccio; Movements Best Price: $19.99 | Sergei Rachmaninov: Isle of the Dead; Symphonic Dances Best Price: $111.75 This gratefully 1990 re-mastered CD of the original 1984 recording of Rachmaninov's thrilling... |
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Chopin: Etudes Best Price: $10.01 Critics are quick to denounce any and all forms of didactic art, but fail to realize that all... | Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor"; Fantasy for Piano, Chorus and Orchestra Best Price: $3.65 This is a very good recording of Beethoven's Fantasy for Piano, Chorus and Orchestra. It is... | Brahms: Piano Quintet; Clarinet Trio Best Price: $19.99 | Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 22, K482; Concerto for Two Pianos, K365 Best Price: $29.99 | Rachmaninov: Symphonies 1 - 3 Best Price: $10.60 RECEIVED THE DISC WITHIN 5 DAYS OF ORDERING VIA FIRST CLASS MAIL.EXCELLENT SERVICE GREAT... |
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Beethoven: 5 Piano Concertos / Choral Fantasy Best Price: $35.99 This 1988 recording is the third set of the Beethoven concertos Ashkenazy has taken to the... | Shostakovich: Piano Works [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $18.98 A few of Shostakovich's more obscure piano gems are included in this album. Ashkenazy's... | Scriabin: 3 Symphonies & Le Po?me de l'extase/ Ashkenazy Best Price: $10.13 This set is amazing in every way, but get the new Ashkenazy 3-CD set released from Decca's TRIO... | John Fowles - Beethoven: Moonlight, Waldstein, Appassionata / Ashkenazy (Penguin Music Classics Series) Best Price: $18.87 Ashkenazy's Beethoven playing is rather loud and brash, and it is more suited to the late... | Alban Berg: Altenberg Lieder; 7 fr?he Lieder (1907); 3 Orchesterst?cke Op. 6 Best Price: $19.99 Alban Berg (1885-1935) found himself between a rock and a hard space: the rock was Gustav... |